title: Micronucleus induction in somatic cells of mice as evaluated after 1,3-butadiene inhalation.
abstract: The effect of different 1,3-butadiene (BD) inhalation doses, 130, 250, and 500 ppm, on somatic cells of mice was studied. Two different cell populations with diverse replicative and differentiative activities, namely splenocytes and peripheral blood reticulocytes, were examined and micronucleus (MN) frequencies were estimated. In splenocytes, different postinhalation time intervals were studied with regard to MN induction and characterisation. BD was found to be clastogenic by inducing increased micronucleus frequencies in both cell compartments and also to induce cytotoxicity at the highest level of exposure. In mouse splenocytes, BD has also shown a weak aneugenic effect at a short time interval after the exposure. Postinhalation time influences the induction of chromosome damage in stimulated splenocytes treated in vivo, since MN frequency decreases with time; in addition, BD has shown its aneugenic and cytotoxic potential only at 2 days after exposure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stephanou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vlastos
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Andrianopoulos
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Demopoulos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002070:Butadienes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000187:drug effects; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D018386:Kinetochores / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D048629:Micronuclei, Chromosome-Defective / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D015162:Micronucleus Tests; D009153:Mutagens / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012156:Reticulocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002070:Butadienes; D009153:Mutagens; C031763:1,3-butadiene